Readit Newsas-j commented on Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team electrek.co/2024/04/29/te... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
EVs are mainstream now?
Try planning a trip from Seattle to Madison, WI and let me know how normal that feels for you.
Try driving from Mt Shasta to Sacramento in 115 degree heat and see how many fast chargers are working on I-5
I don’t think I would call EVs mainstream until your average renter has access to a home charger. It simply will never be mainstream if people have to worry about when they’ll be able to get their next charge.
Ok.
Seattle to Madison: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=026855c9-03d6-408...
Mt Shasta to sac: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=a5a84688-8fbc-412...
For some reason I have initial charge set to 40%, but even then there’s several chargers in range. At recharges are quick going to 60% which means if consumption is higher you could charge for a free more minutes and easily get to 80%.
Can you be more specific?
as-j commented on Nokia Bell Labs Is Moving to Helix in New Brunswick roi-nj.com/2023/12/08/rea... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
It's not immediately clear to me from the article, but this is the city of New Brunswick, NJ, USA, domain makes more sense now. It's not New Brunswick a Canadian province which I first thought of.
as-j commented on Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise techcrunch.com/2023/11/19... · Posted by u/georgehill
That's too bad. I thought Kyle was a great CEO. I felt he really kept a positive, safety oriented, and accountability mindset. It's hard to find CEOs these days that know the in's and out's of the product you're making. Usually they'll just slap someone on with an MBA that knows neither the HW nor SW, but since this was Kyle's project from the beginning, he did. Coming from some other poorly managed startups, it was refreshing to work under both a technical and non-technical leader. Not sure what the future holds for us now.
Kyle was a fine CTO, and these are the qualities you listed.
CEO is a different role, and without any checks in pace he’s pushed the organization so hard it is where it is today. Even the incident aside, just look at the handling and drip drip of news since going from bad to worse.
as-j commented on A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe twitter.com/faborio/statu... · Posted by u/janandonly
The mention of the presence of a Spar supermarket in Europe being a marker for overtouristed areas seems oddly area specific. In most European countries which have them these are bog-standard supermarkets.
I thought batter example would the presence of a Hard Rock Cafe. :)
as-j commented on Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California theregister.com/2023/06/0... · Posted by u/belter
The actual title is:
> Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
Which mashed a lot more sense since Waymo, Cruise and Zoox all have L4 autonomous cars on the road today in California operating with no human inside at all.
as-j commented on Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing? · Posted by u/automatoney
Left my job in March, after a series of terrible managers I was waking at night dreading coming back from vacation. Being FANG adjacent, it paid well and I have no rush to find new work and I'm half looking and half taking a sabbatical.
I also changed jobs during the .com crash, and this feels by far better. Recruiters are still reaching out and returning messages, companies are interviewing. There's a ton of laughably low ball spam. During .com is was pure crickets. That said, I'm also 20 years on in my career and have skills/experience that are in demand.
Taking a break has been the best thing ever. I get to spend time with my son, I'm learning rust and doing Advent of Code, and took a 1day/week contract with a former employer. They want me to review and better document systems I built for them years ago. This gives me the opportunity to see how they've aged, what we did well and what we should have done better, and I'm being paid to learn this. :)
Then: up at 3am worried about work Now: sleeping well again
Thoughts on the industry: why does tech have terrible founder worship and terrible sr+ managers. Do we really need a director to be able to code, or should they be focused on the 150+ people?
as-j commented on “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees gsb.stanford.edu/insights... · Posted by u/t23
If meta is hiring for VR, they are probably taking advantage of the recent Microsoft layoff anyways to pick up talent.
This role's been open for a while, probably just recruiting getting re-organized after being cut to the bone.
as-j commented on “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees gsb.stanford.edu/insights... · Posted by u/t23
Hire to fire is fairly common.
If a layoff is inevitable, It is common in many set ups for managers to hire people new people whom they would want to let go instead of their top dogs who've been rocking their projects for years.
Nah, this role has been open to long, survived recruiting cuts, and it appears even layoffs. I wonder if FB will get so desperate they even stop trying to downlevel.
Dick took out his LongEz, and I realized he had more piloting skills in his little finger than I’d ever have. That plane did things at 100 feet that I wouldn’t be comfortable doing at 5000 feet.
People know him as 1 of the two who flew voyager, and the article on touches on a tiny fraction of the adventures he had in his life. Seemed like a life well lived.